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...considered the first African-American President," he suggests, "John Paul could have been considered the first Third World Pope." With his wholehearted visits to Brazilian favelas and his efforts on behalf of debt forgiveness, says Gibson, the late Pontiff's evident Europeanness did not prevent him from becoming "a hero in the southern hemisphere...
And—most pertinently for us—in recent thrillers, “Harvard” functions as convenient shorthand for “skeptic” and “snob.” Robert Langdon, hero of The Da Vinci Code, is a “Harvard symbologist.” NBC’s forthcoming miniseries based on the Book of Revelation (and catchily entitled Revelations—I can’t wait!) features a skeptical Harvard astrophysicist, Professor Richard Massey. All of this augurs well, we feel, for the success of our novel...
...post-graduate plans), we intend to base our central characters on ourselves and on people we know. While brainstorming over drinks, though, we realized that to conform to popular conceptions of Harvardians—and we are unabashedly aiming for a mass market with our book—our hero-students would have to be a lot more ostentatiously smart and accomplished than we are. It would be useful, for instance, if they knew Latin, and also kung fu. These are not accomplishments any of us possess. The more self-consciously Harvard we made our characters, the farther they departed...
...lying cheat is grotesque. He has raised a lot of money for worthy causes, and his 1998 race with Sammy Sosa to break Roger Maris' single-season home-run record saved the sport of baseball. Whatever the outcome of the House committee hearings, McGwire will always be a hero...
...each of the stories, our hero fights against people for the sake of a chivalric ideal: women and innocence need to be protected against the ever-present forces of twisted darkness. Female empowerment has never seen an incarnation quite like “Deadly Little Miho,” a heroic prostitute astoundingly fond of severing appendages. For everyone who has been frustrated by a world that seems arbitrarily evil—that is, all of us—take a trip to Sin City and fight back, if only vicariously...